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JTS when Simka joined the cast. I absolutely adored "Reverend Jim" Ignatowski, a dark and complex character and not at all the caricature some may have mistaken him for. Also, Judd Hirsch as Alex Rieger doesn't seem to be getting the recognition he really deserves.

In an early ep Alex says his mom is 67 later in the show she is supposed to have been dead for I think like decades (pretty much uneven!). This ep could show a person who burned out their brains on dope as funny but the Andy Griffith Show dropped the character of drunk Otis because he was an alcoholic and it wasn't considered right to make fun of alcoholics anymore! This Taxi was not a perfect show!

Taxi was a great show which did go on too far. The jumping point for this show was when the extremely irritating and unfunny carol kane joined the cast. Too bad it had heart and was very funny at the same time.

Not really a JTS moment, but I can't watch this great never-jumped show any more. What Celebrity Fit Club did for Saved by the Bell (think Dustin Diamond), Celebrity Rehab has done for Taxi. To think I once fell, hard, for a guy like Bobby -- a mimbo who was all hair, cute smile, and legs up to there. And to see Jeff Conaway in CR now, a drooling, puking, incoherent shell of a human being. Sad, so sad.

Another great show that went on too long and became a caricature of itself.

The first jump was Andy's Vic character, then there were various and sundry minor hitches until it ground to a slow halt and died.

What do you do at a yellow light?

In my opinion, this show never jumped. Shows like Cheers, Taxi, Golden Girls were all about examining the human condition. These shows were written by thinking adults for a sophisticated audience. That's why they've lasted. Whenever a season is released on DVD, I run out and buy it. But, I digress. Alex and Louie anchored the show. Bobby seemed to be in a world of his own.

Funny as hell....never jumped....remember how great it was to see Danny DeVito appear in "Romancing The Stone" a year after this show was canned?????

came close, but never jumped. when famous amos descended down to latka in a drug-induced baking marathon and the cast all got freaky on cocaine. i love that episode, though. but, the show isn't always as great as i remember it.

2 words: Latka Gravas. Andy Kaufman was a HORRIBLE comedian, and don't even get me started on his completely asinine wrestling crap. I winced everytime I saw him, whether it be on Taxi or anywhere. His only use was that R.E.M. sing a very good song about him called 'Man on the Moon' (which is also the name of the biopic made about him, starring Jim Carrey).

Alex was hilarious - his facial expressions cracked me up to no end. Tony and Bobby were cute, Elaine was pretty, Jim was very funny, Simpka was as horriffic as Latka and Louie kept me in stitches, to wit: "Die with festering boils, DIE!!"

I liked the show quite a bit, however for me, it it never became a show that I will automatically watch in reruns, whereas I have a number of shows that I do watch repeatedly.

A fantastic show! Jeff Conoway and Tony Danza were pretty good actors, but my all-time favorite would have to be Louie. He's the sort of guy you just love to hate.

"Slow Down"!...WHAAAAT...DUZZZZZZ...AAAAA...YELLLLOOOO...Classic Stuff!...Only jumped during the last season!

It was a great show. Jumped the shark when too much focus went to Latka and Simka. I also found Reverend Jim cheapened the show, in the same way that Ted (Knight) became TOO unbelievably dense on the Mary Tyler Moore Show,and the farce element stopped working - and becomes stupid and an insult to the viewer.
A Taxi episode that I loved was when Elaine got the extremely freaky hairdo and demanded her money back. Hairdresser Ted Danson (!) refused to refund her, and Elaine got revenge when Louis paid an unexpected visit to the salon...

TAXI is most definitely among the funniest sitcoms ever. When ABC took a chance with TAXI, it had clearly lost its sizzle. It should have signed off when NBC dropped it. TAXI was so funny, that it was able to "carry" weak actors like Jeff Conoway and Tony Danza....not to mention Carol Kane with her tragically annoying character "Simka". What a joy it was to watch the sexy, beautiful Marilu Henner, who wasn't shy about showing off her fantastic figure. She never looked better than in the TAXI years.

About the encyclopaedia selling show - always loved that line myself. I can't give you an episode name, but it was a show about new jobs all the cabbies got, I think because the cab company closed for a while. I think it was a two parter, and of course it was Rev. Jim who was choosing between vacuum cleaners and encyclopaedias, and then forgot which one he'd chosen.

Hilarious show. absolutely hilarious. But that theme song was horrendous. What is it with Judd Hirsch and sitcoms with horrible theme songs? (cf. Dear John)